data processing Any operation or combination of operations on data, including everything that happens to data from the time they are observed or collected to the time they are destroyed['deɪtə'prəusesɪŋ]
A systematic sequence of operations performed on data.(Examples of operations are the merging, sorting, computing or any other transformation or rearrangement with the object of extracting or revising information, or of altering the representation of information.)
